A public school in California used fifth graders to groom kindergarteners during a bizarre transgender assignment that included a storybook about a little boy who wears a dress. And the district refused to let parents opt-their children out of the lesson.
In May 2024, a fifth-grade teacher at La Costa Heights Elementary School read aloud the book, My Shadow is Pink, which urges children to question their own gender identity.
The book features a boy who sees his shadow as pink, which the book describes as “your inner-most you.” He then wears a dress to school and his dad changes his beliefs and puts on a dress too.
The children at La Costa Heights Elementary School were forced to watch a read-aloud video of the book with their kindergartener “buddy” as part of the school’s mentoring program. The older students had to ask the kindergartner what color “represents” him and draw the kindergartener’s shadow in chalk.
Though La Costa Heights and the teachers advised parents about the “buddy” program, they never notified parents that “My Shadow is Pink” would be used in the “buddy” program. In fact, the entire lesson was omitted from the male teacher’s weekly newsletter to parents.
Parents requested a notice and opt-outs for similar lessons in the future, but the district turned down their requests.
First Liberty Institute, one of the nation’s most prominent religious liberty law firms, filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of several parents in the school district.
“No child should be forced to speak a message that violates his religious convictions,” said Kayla Toney, an associate counsel for First Liberty Institute. “It is unconscionable that teachers would force Christian elementary students to teach five-year-olds about gender identity in a way that violates their faith.”
According to the complaint:
Despite multiple requests from S.E. and P.D.’s parents, plaintiffs Carlos and Jennifer Encinas and Tom and Rebecca Doe, as well as other parents at La Costa Heights, the School District has steadfastly refused to grant an opt-out or to give notice of its instruction and programming promoting gender identity views that
conflict with parental religious beliefs, except for its health unit.While the School District offers opt-outs from other types of instruction and curriculum for a wide variety of reasons, it refuses opt-outs from gender identity instruction outside of the formal health unit context.
The National Center for Law & Policy is also involved in the case.
“Parents have the right to know what their children are being taught in school, especially when that material goes against their sincerely held religious beliefs. The District is attempting to evade state law that allows parents to opt their children out of sexual education by teaching the same material in other classes,” said NCLP president Dean Broyles.
The U.S. Constitution affords an American man the right to wear high heels and ladies undergarments. You may vehemently disagree with that sort of lifestyle, but that is their right.
But we should all be able to agree that the children should be off-limits and any attempt to groom a child should be illegal. The administrators, teachers and school board members who abused the children within the Encinitas Union School District should be fired and they should face child sex crime charges.
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